Politics, poverty and belief: a political memoir

Abstract

vaccines more freely available’ (p. 140). This story is also personal: Nyabola herself had to go to America to get vaccinated, as Kenya would not be offering her a vaccine, planning to vaccinate only 30% of its population (pp. 117, 139). Nyabola reflects on her European and American ‘supposed colleagues and “partners” gushing effusively about how vaccines had fixed everything’ with no acknowledgement of how different her experience was (p. 116). Following this line of thinking, the book ends with a chapter entitled ‘Necessary, Righteous Rage’ (p. 149). Here, Nyabola argues that ‘Anger is the only appropriate response’ (p. 151) to the way Africa and Africans have been side-lined in research and in the distribution of global vaccines. At the end of reading this book, it is hard to disagree.